Food & Drink

Meet the Class of 2025-26: Can’t-Miss New Restaurants and Bars of Montreal

Every year produces bars and restaurants worth tracking, and Montreal's latest is a strong showing.

Food & Drink

Tsatsu Gbedemah Is Building His Own Table

The WILLS Director of Operations on hospitality, leadership, and creating the kind of space he never saw when he entered Montreal’s restaurant industry.

Food & Drink

Sample Is a Cocktail Bar Built For Sound

An Old Montreal bar where hi-fi sound, curated records, and conversation take precedence. There are still plenty of highballs, though.

Food & Drink

One Pizzaiolo's Eleven-Year Obsession Is NDG's Best-Kept Secret

Years of studying Roman tradition led Giuseppe Sacchetti to an unexpected conclusion: the pizza he wanted to make wasn’t purely Italian, but it was unmistakably Montreal.

Food & Drink

The Instagram DM Era of Hospitality Hiring Is Over

Between flooded inboxes, ghost interviews, and AI-spam CVs, hospitality hiring has been broken for years. A new app wants to fix it.

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"We Built This Place to Party": Chuck Hughes on Twenty Years of Garde Manger

Two decades in, the chef and co-owner on sobriety, restaurant math, and how to run a twenty-year-old restaurant without becoming a museum.

Food & Drink

Meet the Class of 2025-26: Can’t-Miss New Restaurants and Bars of Montreal

Every year produces bars and restaurants worth tracking, and Montreal's latest is a strong showing.

Food & Drink

Tsatsu Gbedemah Is Building His Own Table

The WILLS Director of Operations on hospitality, leadership, and creating the kind of space he never saw when he entered Montreal’s restaurant industry.

Food & Drink

Sample Is a Cocktail Bar Built For Sound

An Old Montreal bar where hi-fi sound, curated records, and conversation take precedence. There are still plenty of highballs, though.

Food & Drink

One Pizzaiolo's Eleven-Year Obsession Is NDG's Best-Kept Secret

Years of studying Roman tradition led Giuseppe Sacchetti to an unexpected conclusion: the pizza he wanted to make wasn’t purely Italian, but it was unmistakably Montreal.

Food & Drink

The Instagram DM Era of Hospitality Hiring Is Over

Between flooded inboxes, ghost interviews, and AI-spam CVs, hospitality hiring has been broken for years. A new app wants to fix it.

Food & Drink

"We Built This Place to Party": Chuck Hughes on Twenty Years of Garde Manger

Two decades in, the chef and co-owner on sobriety, restaurant math, and how to run a twenty-year-old restaurant without becoming a museum.

Food & Drink

Marchigiani became a Montreal institution by staying old school

Three generations and 65 years later, this family business is having its busiest run yet.

Food & Drink

Inside the 2026 Lauriers Gala, Quebec’s Culinary Red Carpet

From producers and artisans to chefs and sommeliers, the industry gathered in Montreal to celebrate its own ecosystem and signal where the province's gastronomy is heading next.

Food & Drink

30 Years Later, Ferreira Is Building a Portuguese Hospitality Dynasty

Carlos Ferreira built his Peel Street restaurant to represent a larger vision of Portugal. Three decades later, his daughters are helping carry that ambition into its next era.

Food & Drink

Chouchou Is the Modern Chinese Bistro Our City's Been Missing

Chef Chouchou Jia spent years cooking in French and Italian kitchens before opening their first restaurant, and the result is unlike anything else in town.

Food & Drink

Chinatown is now home to a classic casse-croûte

The chefs behind Dobe & Andy and Buboy decided all the neighbourhood needs is a solid source of steamies and poutine.

Food & Drink

The New Chinatown Doesn't Call Itself That

What's taken shape on Montreal's Sainte-Catherine West is something entirely distinct from the old Chinatown.

Food & Drink

Marchigiani became a Montreal institution by staying old school

Three generations and 65 years later, this family business is having its busiest run yet.

Food & Drink

Inside the 2026 Lauriers Gala, Quebec’s Culinary Red Carpet

From producers and artisans to chefs and sommeliers, the industry gathered in Montreal to celebrate its own ecosystem and signal where the province's gastronomy is heading next.

Food & Drink

30 Years Later, Ferreira Is Building a Portuguese Hospitality Dynasty

Carlos Ferreira built his Peel Street restaurant to represent a larger vision of Portugal. Three decades later, his daughters are helping carry that ambition into its next era.

Food & Drink

Chouchou Is the Modern Chinese Bistro Our City's Been Missing

Chef Chouchou Jia spent years cooking in French and Italian kitchens before opening their first restaurant, and the result is unlike anything else in town.

Food & Drink

Chinatown is now home to a classic casse-croûte

The chefs behind Dobe & Andy and Buboy decided all the neighbourhood needs is a solid source of steamies and poutine.

Food & Drink

The New Chinatown Doesn't Call Itself That

What's taken shape on Montreal's Sainte-Catherine West is something entirely distinct from the old Chinatown.